Pits

[eqravenprince]

Yesterday, I bump into a Ranger and we are hunting in Frontier Mountains. Everything going smoothly and too easy, so we decide to adventure a bit and go to Temple of Droga. We kill the first Goblin no problem. I go to look around for the next mob to pull, and I fall through the floor. Is there an ingame skill that can detect/see these pits?

[Itap]

Research the area via wiki before you go venturing into new territory :rolleyes:

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

lol yeah thats about the best advice I could come up with too

[SamwiseBanned]

wikis and eq atlas are not classic and should be considered 3rd party tools. ban plz.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

You sure eqatlas isn't I swear i used it back then.

[SamwiseBanned]

i had my own maps bro, sure they were ugly, but they got the job done son!

as far as eqatlas, hmm maybe, i dont think i used it til Luclin or PoP tho, alt tabbing was too much for my piece of shit computer back then :)

[Briscoe]

Yesterday, I bump into a Ranger and we are hunting in Frontier Mountains. Everything going smoothly and too easy, so we decide to adventure a bit and go to Temple of Droga. We kill the first Goblin no problem. I go to look around for the next mob to pull, and I fall through the floor. Is there an ingame skill that can detect/see these pits?

The ingame skill will be you safely getting out of there without assistance if you can't otherwise gate or port. That should be fun.

[Kope]

Yesterday, I bump into a Ranger and we are hunting in Frontier Mountains. Everything going smoothly and too easy, so we decide to adventure a bit and go to Temple of Droga. We kill the first Goblin no problem. I go to look around for the next mob to pull, and I fall through the floor. Is there an ingame skill that can detect/see these pits?

Anyone else initially think this thread was a troll because of the bolded areas? :D

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

alt tabbing was too much for my piece of shit computer back then :)

hahaha I heard that

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

Allakhazam and EQ atlas were my best friends back then.

[eqravenprince]

Alright, that is what I thought. There is no in game skill to detect a pit.

[SamwiseBanned]

allakhazam and casters realm yo

[Raavak]

Talk to the EQ devs. Rogues and bards should be able to see this if they are anything like the AD&D classes. Dwarves and maybe gnomes too iirc.

[Ephirith]

I bump into a Ranger and we are hunting in Frontier Mountains.

I don't know what's worse, hunting with a ranger or falling in pits. Is the pit a metaphor for hunting with a ranger? I don't understand this thread.

[Atmas]

Sounds like good ol'classic EQ fun.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

Sounds like good ol'classic EQ fun.

Hah I know right? I wish I could get lost and fall in traps I'm not aware of again. Good times! I remember my first trip in Blackburrow, fell through the trap floor in the tree trunk right near zone line and my heart sank when I died, I thought I would never see that corpse again lol. Then the scarey adventure going down to get it with a couple other players. Man oh man to be young again.

[eqravenprince]

My favorite pit would be the one in Najena that drops you into a locked jail cell. Classic EQ fun. Doesn't seem like all that much fun when it happens to you though.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

Yeah lol but looking back on it you can't beat that feeling of helplessness this game used to instill in us.

[Raavak]

I remember my first trip in Blackburrow, fell through the trap floor in the tree trunk right near zone line and my heart sank when I died, I thought I would never see that corpse again lol.
On my first trip to Blackburrow I went down that too. Never saw that gear again :/ Gave up that char soon afterwards to start my second and long-time main.

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

It that little gnoll pup that sits in the opening of the tree trunk, He's so inviting!

[Briscoe]

Sounds like good ol'classic EQ fun.

QFT.

The abstract version of the OP's story has probably happened over a thousand times during the life of EQ: Mid-level characters killing in the relative safety of a Kunark outdoor zone say to themselves, "Let's go kill in a Kunark dungeon," and then they get there and all hell breaks loose. The possible zone combinations in this story include LOIO to Kurn's, FM to Droga, OT to Dalnir, KC to Chardok, etc.

Perhaps my fondest EQ memory came from this sort of experience. I was in a group that was cruising in OT, when somehow we decided to go to Dalnir, without a porter. We eventually ended up on the bottom floor. I can still remember standing at the entrance to that long dining room filled with Kly, realizing that our only hope was to invis up and try to make a run for it. Making that run was quite an adrenaline rush, especially when some of our invises dropped early...

[Sweetbaby Jesus]

Hah I was too damn scared to go into kunark dungeons back then I guess. I was even scared to go into the sarnak fort in lake of ill omen and the goblin cave? forget about it lol. first kunark dungeon I stepped into was KC whne I was of appropriate lvl.

[webrunner5]

Rogues get Sence Trap at level 8. Don't think every Pit is a trap, but a lot are.